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Firstly, I apologize in advance if this particular topic has been dealt with before on these forums. I tried searching for my problem and it came up with 600 results, and yet none seem to be applicable to my circumstances.

I recently switched to Fedora Core 5 because one of our teachers prefers it over Ubuntu. That wasn't really a problem. The installation was very smooth.

After getting to my desktop, I plugged in my USB flash drive (SanDisk Cruzer Micro 2.0GB). Lo and behold, nothing happened. I read this thread . I got to the part where it was talking about viewing the messages the kernel is spitting out every 3 seconds. When I plugged the Flash Drive in I got this as output

At first I also had a new CDROM icon on my desktop and a USB SanDisk Cruzer Micro icon in my "Places->Computer". When I opened the USB SanDisk all my files were there on the jump drive. I then went and unmounted both the Jump Drive and the phantom CDROM drive thingy to see what would happen.

Now when I plug the drive back in, nothing happens. I can cd to /mnt and run "mount usbstick" and the drive is mounted to /mnt/usbstick from there I can read all my files on the drive.

What I would like to know is how do I change the type from CD-ROM to whatever it is supposed to be when I plug the jump drive in?

I keep on saying to several people. I recommend do not list any USB or IEEE-1394 (aka Firewire or i.Link) in /etc/fstab because in many cases one USB/IEEE-1394 drive may be listed as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. This happens if you did not give enough time for devfsd or udev to respond to the disconnect command. Try using udev, hotplug scripts, or dbus to handle the mounting for a device that you use over and over again.

I suggest not using U3 USB devices in any OS because they create problems even though it is designed only for Windows XP. Security is the highest problem for these devices. U3 disks includes two partitions. One is a CD-ROM like partition and other is a regular partition.